Marion 'Suge' Knight has been rushed to hospital over stomach problems related to last summer's shooting where he was wounded six times. Knight, 49, had been due in a Los Angeles courtroom on Thursday to face robbery charges after he and rapper Katt Williams allegedly stole a paparazzo's camera last September. The rap mogul was being transferred to court this morning when he fell ill and was taken by ambulance to hospital. Marion 'Suge' Knight (right), next to his attorney David E Kenner, is arraigned on murder charges in Compton, California on February 3. His lawyer, David Kenner, told TMZ  that Knight had suffered bleeding in the stomach as part of a number of health problems following the nightclub shooting.


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Knight struck two men with his truck on January 29 in Compton, California.


Two hours before the official results of the French presidential elections, no Paris visitor could ignore that a historical political change was about to happen. Down Paris' Left Bank boulevards, throngs of flag-waving young and not-so-young people were flocking towards the Socialist headquarters near the National Assembly. Cyclists were ringing their bells, cars blowing their horns and François Hollande's sympathizers chanting "Victoire!" Nicolas Sarkozy had just canceled a planned celebration at Concorde and the place, where the guillotine once stood, was alarmingly quiet and deserted. However, as is traditional in presidential elections, France waited for the traditional countdown at 8 p.m. sharp to see the face of their next president and to start celebrating or commiserating. With 51.7% of the votes, the Socialist candidate François Hollande won a neat victory, albeit not a large one. His first few hours as president struck a different tone to Sarkozy's victory in 2007. He addressed the nation from Corrèze, his regional bastion in the heart of France,and  his speech was then followed by accordionists playing "La Vie en Rose." He then hopped in a modest-looking car to reach the nearest airport and fly to Paris to go straight to the Bastille where 100,000 people waited until after midnight to hear him speak again. No flashy restaurant on the Champs Elysées, no celebrities behind him, no cortege of expensive cars: Hollande appeared as Mr. Normal from the first few minutes of his election.

At home,
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Francois Hollande will start by making a few symbolic gestures: lower the retirement age from 62 to 60 for a fraction of the workforce, specifically those who started working in their mid-teens; he will raise students' scholarships; and stop the haemorrhage of teachers in the education sector, in his eyes, the most important battleground in France and the key to its future.


(CNN) -- He's a best-selling crime novelist from a Scandinavian country, but don't call Jo Nesbø the next Stieg Larsson. It's not that Nesbø doesn't care for the comparison. He just believes it's misleading. The 51-year old from Oslo, Norway says he has more in common with American hard-boiled crime fiction. Nesbø (pronounced NESS-buh) is a former professional soccer player, musician and stock broker, who eventually turned to writing. He was writing bestsellers for ten years before Larsson's "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo" was published. While his crime novels have sold nine million copies worldwide, he's just becoming widely known in the United States, but his new novel will likely change that.

Nesbø: My next Harry Hole novel, the ninth in the series, will be published in
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Norway next month.